What kind of voting do you have in your state?

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4. It was something I heard, in passing, on NPR

They are refusing to do anything that will make voting easier. What they are trying to get passed is "no excuse" absentee voting, which is pretty much just early voting. As it is now, you have to provide a reason for having to vote absentee, such as age (being over age 60) being out of town, work hours, health issues, etc. Yea, anyone can lie, I guess.

Here's a snip from a Michigan Radio article, with a link at the bottom:

State Senator Dave Robertson, a former insurance salesman from Grand Blanc, was, if anything, worse. Robertson is the chair of the Elections and Government Reforms Committee, and he made it clear that he will do everything he can to sabotage Lyons’ bill if it makes it to the senate.

Not only did he say he would oppose it, he said he wouldn’t even allow hearings to consider this, hearings in which he and his fellow senators could hear testimony about how open absentee balloting has worked in other states.

Why does he feel this way?

Well, Robertson was at first largely incoherent, called Election Day a “focal point” he didn’t want to diminish, but then gave a fantastically incredible reason. He said no-fault absentee voting would unfairly handicap candidates because they wouldn’t have enough time to reach those voting early.

http://michiganradio.org/post/michigan-backward-when-it-comes-helping-citizens-participate-democracy#stream/0